/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10035743
sims 1 is one of the few games i actually run in a win2k/xp vm, mostly because it runs surprisingly well ootb and the complete collection shits itself and thinks you've uninstalled an expansion if you use system restore for some reason. i haven't tried playing it natively in a while but i could only make it tolerable on modern hardware by running it with dgvoodoo2 and the widescreen patcher if you want that, i swear to god ts1 used to run fine on every pc i tried installing it on, and then one day i had a bitch of a time setting it up on windows 8.1 and it's been problematic ever since. it's not just a win10+ thing, i'm pretty sure modern nvidia/amd drivers just hate old maxis games or something. simcity 3000 has a similar issue with laggy menus for no apparent reason that i couldn't fix with dgvoodoo iirc, simcity 4 needs dgvoodoo as well, sims 2 has the infamous black shadow bug and inexplicable pink flashing that no one's managed to fix yet, jesus fucking christ what was maxis smoking back then